EDUCATION _ Bachelor’s degree in law enforcement from Boston State College; graduate of the FBI National Executive Institute; senior executive fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

FAMILY _ Wife, Rikki Klieman, an attorney. A son, David Bratton.

SIGNATURE BELIEFS _ Proponent of “broken windows theory,” a belief that low-level offenses lead to larger crimes and therefore the small offenses should be prosecuted; helped create Compstat, crime-mapping system that allows police to better deploy resources.

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